[-empyre-] _I Am Transreal_ : [part 1] [_Augmentology.com_]

naxsmash naxsmash at mac.com
Thu Jul 30 01:51:14 EST 2009


ah Brad what clairvoyance! You must be one of the guild members who  
eat the spice (see: DUNE).   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melange_(fictional_drug) 
....



"Although it is referred to as "spice," can be mixed with food, and is  
used to make beverages such as "spice coffee," "spice beer," and  
"spice liquor," melange is in fact a drug in the clinical sense, and  
daily use can extend human lifespans by hundreds of years.[3] In  
larger quantities it possesses intense psychotropic effects, and is  
used as a powerful entheogen by both the Bene Gesserit and Fremen to  
initiate clairvoyant and precognitive trances, access racial memory  
and heighten other abilities.[3] But melange is highly addictive,[4]  
and withdrawal means certain death; Paul Atreides notes in Dune that  
the spice is "A poison — so subtle, so insidious . . . so  
irreversible. It won't even kill you unless you stop taking it."[3]"


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On Jul 29, 2009, at 5:38 AM, { brad brace } wrote:

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> all careerist complicit-fantasy "positions" and especially
> those of the arts-dot-edu variety are reprehensible; the
> pseudo "dialogue" merely stylistic passcodes *wink wink
> nudge nudge*
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> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Saul Ostrow wrote:
>
>> might it not be the inverse - that the myths and master narratives  
>> that inform our multiple
>> simultaneous realities order our experiences and therefore our  
>> notion of our relationship to others are not in actuality  
>> transformed beyond our expectation that they should be - and as  
>> such your article merely reflects your expectations and that if it  
>> did not you wouldn't have most likely written it in that few of us  
>> are actually open to undermining our own positions
>> ________________________________________
>> Hi all, I also wanted to share this new article I wrote which was  
>> just
>> published on Augmentology.com, as I think its very related to the
>> question of Queer Relational, and how we are transformed by our
>> relationships both with others but also how those relationships and  
>> our
>> notions of the subject are transformed by our experiences of
>>
>>
>> _I am Transreal_: A Reflection On/Of Becoming Dragon [Part 1]
>>
>> [complete version with video and links here:]
>> http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/07/29/_i-am-transreal_-a-reflection-onof-becoming-dragon-part-1/
>>
>> I am transreal. Look at me. When you do, a million iridescent scales
>> across my dragon hide flick, move and align to create a  
>> multiplicity of
>> perceptions, transversal illusions and realities cutting through each
>> other, intersecting, dancing. Look at me. You see a shimmering of my
>> fantasies and yours, a convergence of your minute sensory events,  
>> your
>> imaginary constructs and my desires. Look at me. The mythopoetic
>> elements of your reality and mine come into contact, unwind and  
>> become a
>> recombinant event of male and female and something else, something  
>> more,
>> for just an instant. Perhaps after that initial instant, one of your
>> myths takes over your perception and you decide that you  
>> understand, but
>> before that, I instill confusion and doubt. I can see it on your  
>> face.
>>
>> I am becoming mythopoetic, a shapeshifting creature of legend, a  
>> dragon.
>> Standing here, on the border, the sunlight through the clouds  
>> defeating
>> the fence, I am transreal, between realities, moving through layers  
>> of
>> the symbolic, the imaginary and the real, simultaneously quivering,
>> swapping out and swapping back in, too fast to find the border  
>> between
>> them. I am existing between my fantasies and desires, which are  
>> driving
>> the changing form of my body, and the moment of perception in which  
>> you
>> see me and call me maam, sir, dude, miss, or avoid choosing a  
>> category.
>> Speaking, being with different people throughout the day, my body and
>> name changes, my realness or unrealness oscillates. You see me  
>> standing
>> here, but really, you see my avatar, my body, which is under
>> construction. We bring our illusions together. You see soft skin. I  
>> see
>> the pills and the bloody razor that made it soft, making me feel
>> happier, more feminine. You see scales, I see textured prims and  
>> their
>> glow values.
>>
>> A dark moment in the street at night, your illusions of masculinity
>> swirl up against the confusion I install in you, and you attack. My
>> reality becomes a blur, a flurry of motion, and a sharp chemical
>> emotional reaction, as I strike back with pressurized chemical  
>> weapons.
>> Yet even in that moment, I am transreal, between my reality and  
>> yours,
>> only finding a hard fissure between the two.
>>
>> In bed with my lover, we are transreal, deep in our illusions of each
>> other, feeling our very real emotions for each other, between bodies,
>> looking into her eyes, slipping out of myself and my concerns and out
>> into the bright nebula of pleasure.
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